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Coconino County District 5 Supervisor Lena Fowler found a new way to celebrate old values at the 43rd Annual To’Nanees’Dizi Western Navajo Fair here Saturday. This year’s fair theme honored the memory of Chief Manuelito, one of the Navajos’ principle war chiefs and a signer of the Treaty of 1868 who encouraged his people to embrace education. […]

Research sometimes means looking for one thing and finding another. Such was the case when biology professor Alice Gibb and her research team at Northern Arizona University witnessed a small amphibious fish, the mangrove rivulus, jump with apparent skill and purpose out of a small net and back into the water. This was no random […]

Today, the first piece of legislation Congressman Paul Gosar, DDS (AZ-01) introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 489, passed on the floor the United States House of Representatives. “My legislation is a common-sense solution to the bureaucratic wrangling that has occurred between the Department of Interior and Agriculture that has compromised […]

Last year, Arizonans received 26 percent more megawatt hours of renewable energy than the previous year, reported APS to the Arizona Corporation Commission in May. That was enough to surpass Arizona’s renewable energy goals – set by the Arizona Corporation Commission – for the third straight year. To help reach aggressive future goals, APS is […]

The U.S. House of Representatives has included a provision in a spending bill that would short-circuit a 2-year-old ban on new uranium mining covering one million acres of public lands surrounding the Grand Canyon National Park. But local businesses and sportsmen say that protecting these lands from new uranium mining is critical for supporting hunting, fishing, and tourism jobs […]

At Flagstaff City Council’s noon meeting Tuesday, councilmembers voted to approve the Presidio in the Pines Surety Completion Agreement — an accord with the Phoenix-based American Contractors Indemnity Company (ACIC), which will complete work on the development as promised to the city in 2004. Sized at 91 acres, Presidio in the Pines is a mixed-use […]

FBN reached out to Marc Sterling of Sedona, to learn more about his business, Sterling Financial Services. He’s been in Sedona 12 years and has been working in his field for three decades. Describe your line of work and the services you provide for clients. We have an accounting and tax practice, my 30th year in practice, and we provide a full range of accounting and teax services for individuals, businesses, trusts, estates, and non profits. We prepare tax returns, specializing in tax planning, perform all aspects of bookkeeping, financial statement preparation, bank reconciliations, payroll and sales tax preparation, new and existing business and tax consulting, Quickbooks training, new company startups, IRS negotiations, and budgeting and forecasting. How do you and your team stay ahead of changes in legislation? We participate in year-round continuing education programs from all aspects of the tax and accounting world from different companies. We also share our knowledge with each other in weekly staff meetings. In which ways has your work changed over the years? As in most businesses, we need to offer more diverse services to stay competitive in this economy.